Nicklas Lidstrom of the Detroit Red Wings may have won another Norris Trophy this season as the NHL's best defenseman, but it's the Calgary Flames' young superstar Dion Phaneuf who claims the top spot in sportstwit.com's fantasy defensemen rankings.

The 23-year-old blueliner scored 17 goals and added 43 assists in 82 games for the Flames last season, moving up from No. 8 in the 2006-07 rankings.

It was Lidstrom's second straight runner-up finish in the rankings, after finishing a mere .01 of a point behind leader Sheldon Souray of the Montreal Canadiens last season. The Detroit captain claimed the top spot for the 2005-06 season.

Souray missed 56 games for his new team, the Los Angeles Kings, in 2007-08, falling all the way to No. 152 in the computer rankings.

The Sportstwit player rankings, developed by Sportstwit editor Joe MacDonald, utilizes a computerized ranking system that evaluates players in a number of different categories. For defensemen, the categories used are games played, goals, assists, points, penalty minutes, plus/minus, shots on goal, special team points, ice time, and points per game.

Here are the Top 100 fantasy defensemen for 2007-08:

RNK

Player

Points

GP

G

A

PTS

PIM

1

Phaneuf, Dion D CGY

86.92

82

17

43

60

182

2

Lidstrom, Nicklas D DET

82.99

76

10

60

70

40

3

Gonchar, Sergei D PIT

80.74

78

12

53

65

66

4

Chara, Zdeno D BOS

76.94

77

17

34

51

114

5

Green, Mike D WAS

74.88

82

18

38

56

62

6

Markov, Andrei D MON

74.16

82

16

42

58

63

7

Rafalski, Brian D DET

73.73

73

13

42

55

34

8

Campbell, Brian D CHI

71.52

83

8

54

62

20

9

Pronger, Chris D ANA

70.30

72

12

31

43

128

10

Streit, Mark D NYI

70.17

81

13

49

62

28

11

Jovanovski, Ed D PHO

69.77

80

12

39

51

73

12

Burns, Brent D MIN

66.97

82

15

28

43

80

13

Corvo, Joe D CAR

66.53

74

13

35

48

26

14

Kaberle, Tomas D TOR

65.71

82

8

45

53

22

15

Kubina, Pavel D TOR

64.32

72

11

29

40

116

16

Wideman, Dennis D BOS

64.05

81

13

23

36

70

17

Timonen, Kimmo D PHI

63.22

80

8

36

44

50

18

Bouwmeester, Jay D FLA

63.12

82

15

22

37

72

19

Schneider, Mathieu D ANA

62.17

65

12

27

39

50

20

Rozsival, Michal D NYR

62.15

80

13

25

38

80

21

Keith, Duncan D CHI

61.17

82

12

20

32

56

22

Whitney, Ryan D PIT

60.09

76

12

28

40

45

23

Zidlicky, Marek D MIN

59.62

79

5

38

43

63

24

Coburn, Braydon D PHI

59.53

78

9

27

36

74

25

Redden, Wade D NYR

59.29

80

6

32

38

60

26

Seabrook, Brent D CHI

59.25

82

9

23

32

90

27

Byfuglien, Dustin D CHI

58.97

67

19

17

36

59

28

Meszaros, Andrej D OTT

58.72

82

9

27

36

50

29

Visnovsky, Lubomir D EDM

58.17

82

8

33

41

34

30

Rivet, Craig D SJ

57.98

74

5

30

35

104

31

Aucoin, Adrian D CGY

57.96

76

10

25

35

37

32

Enstrom, Tobias D ATL

57.53

82

5

33

38

42

33

Kronwall, Niklas D DET

55.72

65

7

28

35

44

34

Hainsey, Ron D CLB

55.68

78

8

24

32

25

35

Spacek, Jaroslav D BUF

55.40

60

9

23

32

42

36

Robidas, Stephane D DAL

55.07

82

9

17

26

85

37

Blake, Rob D LA

54.97

71

9

22

31

98

38

Liles, John-Michael D COL

54.77

81

6

26

32

26

39

Suter, Ryan D NSH

54.44

76

7

24

31

71

40

Salei, Ruslan D COL

54.18

82

6

24

30

98

41

Martin, Paul D NJ

54.15

73

5

27

32

22

42

Morris, Derek D PHO

54.05

82

8

17

25

83

43

Zubov, Sergei D DAL

53.44

46

4

31

35

12

44

Gilbert, Tom D EDM

52.99

82

13

20

33

20

45

Salo, Sami D VAN

52.41

63

8

17

25

38

46

Jones, Randy D PHI

52.14

71

5

26

31

58

47

Girardi, Daniel D NYR

52.07

82

10

18

28

14

48

Kuba, Filip D TB

51.86

75

6

25

31

40

49

Ranger, Paul D TB

51.78

72

10

21

31

56

50

Ohlund, Mattias D VAN

51.65

53

9

15

24

79

51

Niskanen, Matt D DAL

51.32

78

7

19

26

36

52

Hamhuis, Dan D NSH

51.26

80

4

23

27

66

53

Hamrlik, Roman D MON

51.23

77

5

21

26

38

54

McCabe, Bryan D TOR

50.86

54

5

18

23

81

55

Wisniewski, James D CHI

50.61

68

7

19

26

103

56

Poti, Tom D WAS

50.29

71

2

27

29

46

57

Oduya, Johnny D NJ

50.24

75

6

20

26

46

58

Pitkanen, Joni D CAR

50.11

63

8

18

26

56

59

Johnson, Erik D STL

50.03

69

5

28

33

28

60

Ballard, Keith D FLA

49.63

82

6

15

21

85

61

Schubert, Christoph D OTT

49.40

82

8

16

24

64

62

O'Brien, Shane D TB

49.00

77

4

17

21

154

63

Lydman, Toni D BUF

48.92

82

4

22

26

74

64

Klesla, Rostislav D CLB

48.88

82

6

12

18

60

65

Johnsson, Kim D MIN

48.74

80

4

23

27

42

66

Regehr, Robyn D CGY

48.74

82

5

15

20

79

67

Edler, Alexander D VAN

48.74

75

8

12

20

42

68

Stuart, Brad D DET

48.58

72

6

17

23

69

69

Daley, Trevor D DAL

48.55

82

5

19

24

85

70

Niedermayer, Scott D ANA

48.30

48

8

17

25

16

71

Beauchemin, Francois D ANA

48.28

82

2

19

21

59

72

Ehrhoff, Christian D SJ

47.72

77

1

21

22

72

73

Tyutin, Fedor D NYR

47.58

82

5

15

20

43

74

Brewer, Eric D STL

47.01

77

1

21

22

91

75

Phillips, Chris D OTT

46.98

81

5

13

18

56

76

Gill, Hal D PIT

46.95

81

3

21

24

68

77

Vandermeer, Jim D CGY

46.13

75

3

14

17

110

78

Komisarek, Mike D MON

46.02

75

4

13

17

101

79

Montador, Steve D FLA

45.98

73

8

15

23

73

80

Weber, Shea D NSH

45.96

54

6

14

20

49

81

Boyle, Dan D TB

45.94

37

4

21

25

57

82

Finger, Jeff D TOR

45.90

72

8

11

19

40

83

Gleason, Tim D CAR

45.89

80

3

16

19

84

84

Preissing, Tom D LA

45.46

77

8

16

24

16

85

Staios, Steve D EDM

45.37

82

7

9

16

121

86

Clark, Brett D COL

45.06

57

5

16

21

33

87

Foote, Adam D COL

45.03

75

1

15

16

107

88

Hannan, Scott D COL

44.27

82

2

19

21

55

89

Huskins, Kent D ANA

44.01

76

4

15

19

59

90

Foster, Kurtis D MIN

43.93

56

7

12

19

37

91

White, Ian D TOR

43.89

81

5

16

21

44

92

Hedican, Bret D CAR

43.78

66

2

15

17

70

93

Michalek, Zbynek D PHO

43.43

75

4

13

17

34

94

Berard, Bryan D NYI

43.22

54

5

17

22

48

95

Jackman, Barret D STL

43.15

78

2

14

16

93

96

Hejda, Jan D CLB

43.12

81

0

13

13

61

97

Kaberle, Frantisek D CAR

42.84

80

0

22

22

30

98

Allen, Bryan D FLA

42.77

73

2

14

16

67

99

Bergeron, Marc-Andre D ANA

42.56

55

9

10

19

20

100

de Vries, Greg D NSH

42.37

77

4

11

15

71

In the final part of our three part series, we'll rank the top 50 fantasy goaltenders.